In part 2 of Daily Maverick's mapping project on air pollution, we see and hear from community members in Thubelihle, Mpumalanga.

The air in Thubelihle is tinted with a yellow ochre haze as fine, pale dust from power stations and mines that settles on skin, homes and in lungs alike. And yet still, children play in the street.

In the first part of this investigation, Daily Maverick mapped the places where South Africans are most vulnerable to air pollution's deadly effects. Then we went to meet them.

This is what they said.

Sipho Maseko

"In my tenure, now as a councillor, I had two children die because they were affected by the ash. They were affected by the dust. Children died."

So said Sipho Maseko, the ward councillor in Thubelihle, in conversation with Daily Maverick.

"I had a granny and maybe a person in her early 40s, I think I had four cases that were caused by the dust from the mines."

Maseko has been in his position for only four years.

"Here in Kriel, there are two clinics. There are government clinics - one here in the township and one at town. Honestly, there should be more because...